Hyperion section 5

 Section 5 pg 311

They hear bad noises and go to the captain's room to check it out.  There's a human body's worth of blood in the room.  We're gonna assume he's dead, presumably killed by the Shrike. 

They make it to the end of the road with the sail wagon and now they're in a tram car that's gonna take them somewhere.   There's mountainss involves.  The lady detective oa gonna tell her story.

The detective's tale: the long good bye.  Pg 325

She's hired by a beautiful man to solve his own murder.  Turns out he's an AI.  Nit just that, an AI that was built around the writing of Keats.  There's your hyperion connection. 

The AI calls himself Johnny. She's following his credit card receipts to see where they lead.  She ends up in a dive bar and shows an old gross man Johnny's picture and says if you've seen this guy, it's your lucky day.  His response is priceless.   "If it is, itll be he first time ina long fucking time."

She follows leads that go nowhere.  Johnny calls her to tell her that someone tried to kill him again.  They go on adventures.  They engage in physical congress.   Someone tries to kidnap Johnny in the night.  She stops them.  She tortures one who tells her the shrike temple sent them.  They take their car to the empire state building and there's a portal that takes them to the shrike temple.

The guy at the temple says that Johnny has previously agreed to make the pilgrimage to Hyperion. This must have happened in Johnny's missing week.  Also, the other ai robot they killed that tried to kill Johnny has been introduced as Johnny's body guard.  So they were worried Johnny was getting cold feet and they sent thugs to make sure Johnny followed through. 

Johnny explains some techno babble stuff to detective that makes this all seem unlikely. 

But now he understands why he wanted to go there because he'd have to be a person to do so and he wants that.  Someone doesn't want him to and has tried to kill him at least twice to stop him.  But he's determined to do it.  So they try.  The turning into a human thing works.  Also he has implanted a super chip in the detective's head in case he needs to send her a lot.of data real quick.  This is pretty much foreshadowing as trying to get to the shrike temple Johnny is killed.  But before he's full on dead he transfers himself into the detective's head. So he didn't technically make it to Hyperion,  but he will kind  of make it to Hyperion in her head.  Oh, also, that's his baby she's pregnant with.